Toddler Flashback

Oops! What's the matter? Has it been so long that you cant actually remember what it was like to be a toddler? Here let me take you by the hand and guide you there.

Ahh. Take a great big breath and let it out.

Let's pretend... for just a few moments...

Here we are vacationing in a foreign country where everything seems absolutely perfect. You don't know the language; but that's okay because Nana Anna is here to take care of you. I decide to put you in your comfy stroller and take you for a little walk to a nearby park so I can push you on the baby swing. You like the way the swinging motion makes you feel because it is a lot like being rocked.

So here we are strolling along down a well-kept little path. Our skin is warm from the glorious sunshine. There isn't a cloud in the sky. The birds are chirping merrily while the crickets make those cool little chirping noises. The trees are so full of bold green leaves it looks like the tree branches go on forever. Bunches and bunches of multicolored wildflowers are waving in the cool and gentle breezes while huge colorful butterflies carefully flit about from one flower to the next.

You're feeling relaxed and more at ease now because for a few moments you get to leave your adult cares behind. You have me to be your nurturing and supportive caregiver who will meet your e-v-e-r-y need...

But all of a sudden a Big Bad Bear comes charging out of the woods, knocks me unconscious, then grabs you and runs off with you. The whole time you are screaming because you can't get away.

You are being taken farther and farther away. You continue to cry for me; but I'm unable to get to you because I wake up with amnesia and don't know my own name or that I was taking care of you.

The Big Bad Bear takes you to a remote village a couple of hours away. He then hands you over to some humans in exchange for a big picnic basket. The humans who so much wanted to have a baby but could not were excited to claim you as their own. They quickly wrap you in a warm baby blanket and try to calm you down. They make funny faces at you, and try to make you laugh.

However, after a little while they have to return to their daily chores. You are left only in a makeshift crib while they work nearby. Your new caregivers live in a remote, underdeveloped little village with no running water or electricity. Due to the lack of modern conveniences there are a lot more chores to be done just to barely exist.

So here you are in a foreign country where the people speak a language of which you have never heard. All it sounds like to you is a bunch of gibberish.

No one is concerned that you can't speak their language because they still have left over ancient belief that kids should be seen and not heard. Therefore, they are not in a hurry to teach you how to speak. And obviously they can't speak your language. You can't even tell them what language you are used to hearing.

On top of all of that you have no clue of how to use sign language to convey your needs, let alone your desires. Even worse, you have limited mobility and dexterity to get things for yourself. For the next two or more years, every day, all day and all night, you have to live with the mentioned conditions AND you have no way to meet your own needs.

If you cry, you have to wait on others to try to figure out what it is you want, and then wait for them to meet your needs IF they are not too busy.

Oh, I almost forgot...

When you finally get whatever it was you wanted whether it's to play with your little homemade toy or cuddle with your blanket, at any given moment without notice or explanation anyone is allowed to take those things away. And you can't do a dang thing about it. You have to peacefully accept what just happened and go on to struggle to get your next need or want met.

Sounds frustrating doesn't it? But that's okay because you were just pretending for a few moments. Imagine really being in that situation for two or more years even with modern conveniences.

Suddenly you realize, it's kind of nice being an adult and being able to take care of your own needs. Now that you have had your little trip back in time, you promise you will work really hard to provide for the needs of your baby.

When the right time comes to have a baby you know you will get all excited over the preparations. You will probably get totally absorbed in picking out the right baby furniture, car seat and all the other gazillion things that are used to raise a modern baby because you don't want to feel like your child is missing out on anything. But even though all the material stuff can be exciting, you know that there are other things that are far more important.

You make a promise to yourself you will enjoy taking the time to interact with your child because from your own experience time flies by and you're faced with the grown up world far too soon. Then you remember how that grown up world can be pretty scary; especially when people you thought you could trust turn out to be people with whom you should not even leave your pet goldfish.

At that moment you decide that when you have a kid you will move heaven and earth to make sure your special love bundle can communicate with you as soon as possible. If a big bad something or someone threatens your child you will want to know about it before it is too late. You know in your heart and soul you dont want to do anything that will put your little angel at risk. Living with the guilt of having not done everything you could to protect your child can be a living h...

Anna Kelso
A.K.A. Nana Anna of http://www.NanaPOD.com, home of the Nana Anna Toddler Talk Tool, a fast, easy and inexpensive way for toddlers to communicate their needs and if they are being harmed.

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